About Jørgen la Cour
Born 2 October 1767 on the beach. Died 3 September 1809. Son of Pierre
la Cour and Christiane Frederikke Nohr. In 1778 he came to Viborg Latin Schools
2nd lesson "and had nothing learned before", that would say no Latin, since
he undoubtedly received Monsrs teaching. Stiosus Curtz, who was a teacher
at the beach at the death of his father. After completing the intermediate
classes, he reached 1785 in the masterpiece and, as he entered it, was confirmed
on April 3, 1785 in Viborg Cathedral. In 1782, in the Distribution Protocol,
he had the term "great hope", both of the following years "pretty good hope".
In 1782 he had no allowance, but at the annual distribution he received 4
barrels of rye and 5 barrels of barley. In the following 5 years (1783-87)
he received between 16 and 30 rigsdaler annually. Probably, he must have lived
the loving-kindness of loving people, and may also have to serve by teaching
children and playing the organ in Søndersogns Kirke.
In 1787 he became a student, and to his private presidency, he chose Professor
Børge Riisbrigh (1731-1809), who always felt so paternal of the young students
to which he was compared. For a long time, however, he was not in Copenhagen.
His poverty forced him to interrupt his studies and seek a living. Possibly
it may have been the parish priest in Odder, Anders Kragballe, married to
his half-sister who helped him descend in Odder, as this had become vacant
by the death of Abraham Friis in 1789. He was called there in May 1789 by
Sophie Amalie Rantzau, widow of Colonel Malthe Sehested. It was a good office,
and he also taught outside the school, among other things. In song and music,
and also regularly helped his brother-in-law, the priest, to preach. With
his few requirements for life, he could then go a little bit, so after a couple
of years, he was able to pay a broker who asked for his office while he went
to Copenhagen to finish his exam. However, of course, he had to live with
thrift. He had to teach, and among his pupils in piano games, mention was
made of the later so-called Malte Konrad Bruun (1775-1826) who, in 1790, had
become a student and now lived in the capital. However, Jørgen la Cour had
already won a warm and devoted friend in managing Peter Rosenmeyer at Åkjær,
who also had a seal farm in Falling. Jørgen la Cour writes in 1796, "At the
time I was in Copenhagen, I did not have to demand money from anyone else.
As soon as Rosenmeyer knew I needed, he sent me money, and without proof."
In Copenhagen he lived, like before, with his colleague from Viborg Hans
Peter Barfoed, who had been a student 2 years after La Cour and now studied
theology at the university, so that they became a student counter. From these
years a letter originates, which can be reproduced here as a small memory
of the friendship of the two young people who lived throughout their lives.
It reads as follows:"Elskte ven! Sildig opfylder jeg mit givne løfte om at
skrive; men det kommer dog. Rigtig nok lille Barfoed havde jeg ventet brev
fra dig; men da vi nu begge har forsømt det, vil vi desto lettere tilgive
hverandre. - Jeg har sat eksamen op til april. Du forundrer dig vel derover;
men det er nu bestemt. - Til Hjortes har jeg ikke været siden du rejste, kan
derfor ikke sige hvorledes de lever. - Da jeg håber at dette brev kommer til
dig nytårsdag eller dagen efter, skal du dog se min poesi, som er uden skønhed,
men dog oprigtig højt slår din barm, når du en ven omfavner glad ved hans
side svinder sorger hen: Gid du da aldrig, bedste Barfoed! savner en tro i
sorg og glæde prøvet ven! Måtte skæbnen os dog nær foreene. Når stille landligt
liv buer vores lod. Vi da vil føle glæder som er rene og prise Ham, som er
alviis og god! Og i hverandres arme skal vi glade erindre vor venskabs faste
bånd. Vi henrykt skue da hverandres mage! Til dette valg led os, o fader hånd!
Copenhagen, December 29, 1792
From your devoted J. la Cour. "
In May 1793, Jørgen took the 2nd degree diploma, while gaining the 1st
grade for the prophet, and returned to his grave in Odder, which he never
slept ever since. Though he sought several priests in the four following years,
he did not get any of these. For a number of years (1798-1807) he was a tenant
of Randlev Præstegård, and in 1798 he bought a small farm in Odder, the present
Christianslund, which he died first on June 15, 1804. Furthermore, he owned
in 1800 (and still Earlier) a house of six subjects with garden space that
must have encountered near to his own farm.
But in 1809, at midsummer time, Jørgen la Cour once held an auction after
a poor man. It was very hot, there were a lot of people co-spelled in the
narrow room, and he was greatly heated. Then he drank a glass of cold water
and felt immediately unassailable. There was a stomach inflammation, and on
Sunday, September 3, 1809, he died, almost 42 years old.
In Odder School, his life act went down for 20 years. "His knowledge,
his formation, his musical skills, his lovely singing voice, his uncommon
companionship talents and all his winning personality made him welcome and
welcome to all the finest manors in all of the region, in all its priests
and in every possible way Other families. There was hardly any company who
did not know when "the dude of Odder" was involved, and despite all the "Aristo
crater" in the area, he was very well known for his democratic associations
that brought him joy By believing that "Equality among all stakes is spreading
more and more" and put him in a great relationship with all his common parishioners.
His eight-year-old friend, the clergyman KL Ferslev in Jelling, called him
8 years after his death "The most beloved of Adams sons".
In addition, he was a great farmer, well, actually, a born farmer. He
ran his office well and had little income from it. He was the first far and
wide who cultivated potatoes after a larger scale, and he was also one of
the first, perhaps the very first, who used covered rice and stalk to divert
the harmful water. It sounds a little strange today when he wrote in 1797:
"At this time, Im busy with the operation of my crop. When you come here,
youll see potatoes planted in thousands." But at that time it was something
unusual. Now, as he seems to have been a good economist in the most beautiful
sense of this word, he was relatively well in it.
The life in Odder dwellings has a priests son from the nearby Saksild
Priestyard, Hans Christian Ingerslev (born 1798), priest in Boeslunde, depicted
with the following words: "How enjoyable it was not to come down to the la
Cour in Odder where there was a life And a cheerfulness of the whole family
who could endure everyone and knowingly was completely free from the trivial
and narrow-hearted, which at the time was quite common in the rural community,
was a great misery for the young people. He was an excellent, Loving man,
and Saksilds boys saw him always happily. He could talk so it lived up to
both the old and the young, could smile so warmly and sing so cool that it
was a bright one. His loving wife was a lovely woman with So mildly a face
that it could capture those boys. And it came to pass that we were polite
and polite when she was present. "
Married 2 March 1798 in Ribe with Christine Charlotte Guldberg. (After
her birth, her father informed her in-laws about it with the addition that
she should be called after her grandmother: Christine Charlotte. In the church
book, however, Christine is only but when she came to her grandparents after
her mothers death, they called her Lotte alone Under this name, she continued
to go.) Born 10 June 1777 in Skagen. Died 28 February 1826. Daughter of Tolger
Holger Guldberg and Petrea Mar-Grethe Schwane Bang. Arrived in 1778, after
his mothers death, to Fuglede to his grandparents, the priest Jørgen Andreas
Bang and Christine Charlotte Friboe, with whom she moved to Korsør in 1782.
Arrived in 1789, after his grandmothers death, to his grandfathers brother,
county governor Jacob Bang in Odense, "whose strange wife [Johanne Walther]
has promised me [her grandfather] to refer her to all good." Arrived in 1791,
after his grandfathers death, to his only aunt, married to passwriter Lauritz
Leth in Copenhagen. During her stay in the capital, which lasted over 2 years,
she spent a great deal of time with her mothers uncle, the renowned, pious
doctor, Professor Frederik Ludvig Bang, whose son-in-law, Ole Hieronymus Mynster
and Jacob Peter Mynster regularly met. But far closer she stood three of her
mothers cousins: the later named Henrik Steffens, the swearingly sensitive
Baltasar Bang (in his time known as poet), but especially Hans Friboe Garde,
who died as a priest Horslunde and Nordlunde in 1819, and Who she calls several
years later: "one of my girlfriends uncles, I almost said the girlfriend".
During her stay in Copenhagen it happened to her because of her uncommon
beauty, as Frederik Barfod announces in the following lines: "It was customary
at the time that people at the balparas were crowded up at the gallery to
Look at the city and listen to the music, but it was not customary to dress
up for this walk, which one would almost see and not see. Lotte Guldberg also
went there with Leths family, but she had not been there long before Kristian
VII caught sight of her and sent an adjudicator with the command that she
should immediately come down and dance a menu with him. No excuses were helped.
In her daily suit, a waistcoat, she had to go down to the hall and enter a
menu with Both the princess and the hero princess danced with. The others
did not remember. But hardly the dance was over before she hurried home, and
at Kristiansborg Castle she never put her foot. "
In 1793 she returned to Ribe, but in the summer of 1795 we find her at
one of her fathers youth friends, Jens Hartmann, the priest in Randlev, with
whom Jørgen la Cour now and then came, and on November 2, 1795 they became
engaged. After the concepts of the time she, as mentioned before, was uncommonly
beautiful: she had a tall figure, noble features, lovely sky-blue eyes and
a vaulted, thoughtful forehead. In addition, a sensitive soul and a living
imagination. She was an excellent lovable woman, both as a daughter, as a
sister, as a wife and mother, very well as a loving and faithful mother in
law; A clever and attentive housekeeper, a support for the weak and the suffering.
She lived after her husbands death to live on her farm in Odder until, on
March 25, 1817 in Viby, she married her dear husbands above-mentioned friend,
the pastor, Hans Peter Barfoed, with whom she moved to Fakse in 1823.
But she should not grow old in Fax. In February 1826 she became ill, and
the physician named Steenberg on Vallø declared it for stomach inflammation.
It was hardly rumored in the city before the parishman, Johannes Larsen, called
all the townspeople together and unanimously agreed that as long as she was
ill, they should alternately send a car after a doctor and a riding bid for
drugs. On the 21st of February, the silent, heavy-handed curly man, Thaning,
had picked up the doctor, and by the way he sent his wagon again the 3 miles.
I [Frederik Barfod] heard him say to the kiss: "There has been a fortune to
Hårlev, so you change horses. When you come back to Hårlev from Vallø, there
must be a new fork, and you will drive everything the horses can stretch They
crash, when they pay. " And Thaning was far more poor than a rich man. "But
she was unable to save, and on Tuesday 28 February 1826 she slept quietly.
At her funeral March 8, 1826 in Faxa, Pastor M.F.G. Bøgh in Herfølge-Seder
and reminded her of the following words: "You thank him who had doubled the
happiness of his life in you and found in you what he wanted you to thank
a noble and worthy man because you as a loving and faithful spouse walked
by His side, caring for his days with care, assistance and advice. Thank you
to the many who called you mother, thank you all for mother-in-law and mother-in-law.
You praise everyone who knew you for the smoothly artless seats in which you
showed yourself Well-formed man, for your business in your household call,
for your sincere and sensible behavior, for the Christian example. Yes, thank
you all for all the Christian, all the constructive that was with you both
in life and death. Mild conduct accompanied you through life hereafter, you
recognized it in Christian faith, acknowledged it with a loving heart. In
particular, you recognized the gift of God to be blessed with relatives and
friends who appreciated you and appreciated what you were. Yes in God Take
care of it Are you shut up and humbly thank you for the mercy of what you
were entrusted you went from here, and in Christs hope, in the hope of Gods
grace in life after this, you changed the age of eternity. "
Her second husband shook 9 years after her death, following her reminder:
"Highness and thanksgiving accompanied her to the grave. Many blessings will
meet her forever." (5 children - No. 50-54)
Hans Peter Barfoed, who became the deputy father of Jørgen la Cour and
Lotte Guldbergs 5 sons, and lovingly stood them in the fathers place, was
born February 15, 1770 in Tistrups pastoral farm at Ebeltoft, as mentioned,
went to Viborg School, student 1789 . Cand.theol. 1792. Kateket at the Nikolai
church in Copenhagen that year. Parish priest to Branderup in Tørninglen 1796,
to Lyngby and Albøge in 1808. Established the school teachers seminar in 1813.
Parish priest to Fax 1822 and proved 1828. Died 14 November 1841.
H. P. Barfoed